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Video game industry term
A console war is the competition between two or more video game console manufacturers. While console manufacturers are generally always trying to outperform other manufacturers in sales, these console wars engage in more direct tactics to compare their offerings directly against their competitors or to disparage the competition in contrast to their own, and thus the marketing efforts have tended to escalate in back-and-forth pushes. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Console warA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Spiritual opium and the spiritual opium war: A cultural history of arcade games and console games in 1990s ChinaInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Epistle of the Prison of Human LifeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: PlayStation’s Market Dominance: A New Era of Console WarCited 0 times
- Go sideways: History of video game consolesA closely related topic
- Go sideways: List of home video game consolesA closely related topic
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No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
🆕 Influential since 2022
đź“š Books worth reading
- 📕Epistle of the Prison of Human LifeChristine de Pisan · 2019
Revelation ---at lastRichard W. Turner Sr., Sharyn Larson · 2025- 📕A letter of advice and comfort to the English captives, who suffer slavery in foreign partsJosiah Woodward · 1700
Jesus is victorCorrie ten Boom · 1985
The gospel of hopeGeorge Henry Somerset Walpole · 1914
Oh, how He loves youCorrie ten Boom · 2000- 📕RavensbrückElisabeth Prégardier · 1994
- 📕The epistle of the prison of human life ; with, An epistle to the Queen of France ; and, Lament on the evils of the civil warChristine de Pisan · 1984
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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